> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys P. Beauchemin
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:06 PM

Hmmm... this isn't dated April 1, so I have to presume you are serious here

> The first time I subscribed to HP3000-L predates the archives 
> ... Since that time, I have posted countless times [snipped examples
of "countless"]
> Today, I got a message from HP3000-L that it was holding a message I
> posted containing a joke.  Then ... another ...
> restricting a message I posted about the HP3000-L luncheon I 
> was trying to organize at HP World 2004.
> 
> This indicates to me that it is time for me to leave HP3000-L.  I will
> not put up with censorship.

Let me get this straight -- You've been posting here since pre-archive days [early 1994], having submitted thousands of messages, and now because of automated "your message is on hold" responses to -TWO- messages, you're jumping to the conclusion that you are being [unfairly or otherwise] "censored" and are therefore planning on leaving the list without further investigation?  That's not like you...

You, of all people, should know and understand that e-mail is not a "secure" nor "guaranteed" channel for communications -- "stuff" happens, as they say...

Furthermore, this general thread ("all good things...") is usually an indication that someone is leaving the list for the plain-and-simple reason that they no longer have access to or work upon an HP3000; with your long-standing association with system backup solutions that work well on the HP3000, someone seeing this subject and your name associated with it might come to the conclusion that your company suddenly decided to drop that product -- a far scarier thought than "gee, maybe he really is being censored..."

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